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#1 2015-08-15 02:57:53

Beestonplace
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2000

Silk Cut Purple
Loaded magazine
3 Button SB suits from TM Lewin which weren't THAT bad
Open-plan offices, but what the heck
Every investment bank, every consultancy was hiring
Everything was possible, all options open
Tramp's
Bentley's model range: Arnage, Continental T, Azure
Papworth's briefcases in "London Tan"
No clue that 9/11 will change the world 12 months from today


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#2 2015-08-15 07:39:40

Worried Man
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From: Davebrubeckistan
Posts: 15988

Re: 2000

I was a college kid with a cell phone I rarely used and I was getting laid frequently.  I drove a candy apple red 1976 BMW 2002.  I was also making cheap and frequent trips to Moline, Illinois using AirTran's student standby program and and then driving to Grinnell College in Iowa.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F20g7Y0SDpc


"We close our sto' at a reasonable hour because we figure anybody who would want one of our suits has got time to stroll over here in the daytime." - VP of George Muse Clothing, Atlanta, 1955

 

#3 2015-08-15 08:42:37

doghouse
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Posts: 5147

Re: 2000

This thread is hitting close to home. One of my college roommates passed away unexpectedly last week, and my FB has been flooded with lots of pictures from that era. I'm pretty unsettled emotionally at the moment.

But, to the thread, I was a long haired surfer, wearing surf stuff and flip flops.


Hide thy infants, hide thy Lady, and hide thy husband, alas they art forcing sexual intercourse upon the entire populace. - Wm Shakespeare

 

#4 2015-08-15 09:42:54

Martyn
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Posts: 243

Re: 2000

I was 10, it was all bike rides and Pokemon cards which nobody knew how to play.

 

#5 2015-08-15 09:49:36

Armchaired
Ivy I.V.
From: Old England
Posts: 7580

Re: 2000

Was the year my daughter was born and my life was never going to be the same.


�Careful with that axe Eugene.�

 

#6 2015-08-15 10:00:31

formby1
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From: Hauteur Extraordinaire
Posts: 1039

Re: 2000


"Dressing, like painting, should have a residual stability, plus punctuation and surprise." - Richard Merkin

Souvent me Souvient

 

#7 2015-08-15 11:11:02

Worried Man
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From: Davebrubeckistan
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Re: 2000


"We close our sto' at a reasonable hour because we figure anybody who would want one of our suits has got time to stroll over here in the daytime." - VP of George Muse Clothing, Atlanta, 1955

 

#8 2015-08-15 11:11:51

Worried Man
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From: Davebrubeckistan
Posts: 15988

Re: 2000

Sorry to hear about the bad news, Doggie.


"We close our sto' at a reasonable hour because we figure anybody who would want one of our suits has got time to stroll over here in the daytime." - VP of George Muse Clothing, Atlanta, 1955

 

#9 2015-08-15 11:16:46

formby1
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From: Hauteur Extraordinaire
Posts: 1039

Re: 2000


"Dressing, like painting, should have a residual stability, plus punctuation and surprise." - Richard Merkin

Souvent me Souvient

 

#10 2015-08-15 12:20:01

Beestonplace
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Posts: 1926

Re: 2000

and Speed Garage, 9cm ties, Submariner worn with a suit


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#11 2015-08-15 12:20:37

Bop
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Posts: 7661

Re: 2000

Yeah, dandruff is the last of his worries...get a bloody tie!

 

#12 2015-08-15 16:34:41

woofboxer
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From: The Lost County of Middlesex
Posts: 7959

Re: 2000


'I'm not that keen on the Average Look .......ever'. 
John Simons

Achievements: banned from the Ivy Style FB Group

 

#13 2015-08-15 19:46:38

Chévere
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From: Baltimore
Posts: 856

Re: 2000

In 2000, already 45, with a 14 yo daughter and a 13 yo son, trying really hard to figure out and transition my practice from mainly reconstructive stuff to a higher end cosmetic practice in a city I had no connections. At the time Paul Simon's lyrics used to echo constantly in my head "Why is life getting harder when I'm getting soft in the middle".
And life did get even harder, but so did I, as we all do inevitably.
Then one day you find yourself enjoying it not really quite knowing why it got to this, but being grateful for just for being here.

Last edited by Chévere (2015-08-15 19:47:04)


Cógelo suave, pero cógelo.

 

#14 2015-08-16 03:53:44

4F Hepcat
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Posts: 14333

Re: 2000


Vibe-Rations in Spectra-Sonic-Sound

 

#15 2015-08-17 15:32:43

An Unseen Scene
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From: Nottingham, UK
Posts: 1173

Re: 2000

2000 started with relief that the software changes i had sold to the industry to avoid energy systems not working had worked.  Remember Y2K compliance orogrammes?

2000 was a blur, new first house, young son, one on the way, ace work, travel, being paid to drink in the day the norm still, loads of fun, internet still fairly new, socialising all the time, no time to stop and contemplate, clothing was just something was all did without thinking.  The 1990's had been an anti style decade it seemed.  It wasn't until I got to 40 I looked at !yself and felt I needed to become myself stylistically again.

As 9/11 hit I was listening to the radio over the tannoy at a holiday camp where we and friends had taken our by now collective of four kids.

By 2004 I was in Rus5!a advising on some serious stuff best not described here that had me wondering how to get out.  Life is strange.

Last edited by An Unseen Scene (2015-08-17 15:41:45)

 

#16 2015-08-17 17:10:09

stanley s. hall
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From: Hollywood Sportatorium
Posts: 112

Re: 2000


Let's take the cheese.

 

#17 2015-08-18 07:39:32

doghouse
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Posts: 5147

Re: 2000

Thanks fellas.


Hide thy infants, hide thy Lady, and hide thy husband, alas they art forcing sexual intercourse upon the entire populace. - Wm Shakespeare

 

#18 2015-08-19 14:20:45

Beestonplace
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Posts: 1926

Re: 2000


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#19 2017-04-30 12:11:38

Beestonplace
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Posts: 1926

Re: 2000

To quote Thetrad:

1990. Lloyd's of London. Mind the gap. Covert coats. Hermes ties. "only old men wear contrasting collars, mate."

Watery coffee and digestive biscuits. "Did he put a line down?" Slip cases. Black cap toes. DB suits. Side vents. Standing on an air conditioning vent. Blue waiter great coats in a sea of grey and navy suits.

Smoking by the lav. Lunch at Ball Brothers. G&T. A starter. A pudding. A Packet of B&H Golds and Triple X mints. Walking back. Steel taps on concrete. Brollies. Your bits and pieces. Office drinks at the Lamb. Can't figure out the pay phone. Are they all on drugs? Hard to say.


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#20 2017-04-30 19:05:57

Berkeley_Breathes
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From: Crabapple Cove, ME
Posts: 4519

Re: 2000

Of course 9/11 was a horrific event that changed the world forever... But I can't help feeling that 2000 itself was an innocence-killer. Something about the (anti?)climax of Y2K... Starting the new millennium with either fear or disappointment... I love 80s prep and its extension, 90s yuppies... something innocent about both... Both died in 2000, in my opinion.


"The only comment a gentleman’s outfit should generate is that he is properly dressed for the occasion" - Calvin Trillin

 

#21 2018-08-02 14:34:50

Beestonplace
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Posts: 1926

Re: 2000


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#22 2018-08-02 14:35:51

Beestonplace
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Posts: 1926

Re: 2000

The one in the middle, with the crazy colours. When TML still had its basement department with end-of-range shirts and "seconds". H&Hs were 39 GBP.


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#23 2018-08-07 08:46:34

mhalat
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Posts: 381

Re: 2000

i was 14, and had bought my first (and to date, only) issue of gq. it was revelatory, but i preferred computer gaming world.

 

#24 2018-08-07 18:23:52

Film Noir Buff
Dandy Nightmare
From: Devil's Island
Posts: 9340

Re: 2000

I wish i could find those shirts, theyre perfect for summer.

 

#25 2018-08-07 18:29:45

Berkeley_Breathes
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From: Crabapple Cove, ME
Posts: 4519

Re: 2000


"The only comment a gentleman’s outfit should generate is that he is properly dressed for the occasion" - Calvin Trillin

 

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